[28]Nordalbingia included the country now known as Holstein.
[29]Saint Boniface was an English missionary called “The Apostle of Germany.”
[30]Arminius, who achieved German independence, was the Saxon hero, and they called this idol “Irminsul,” another form of “Hermann Säule” (“Hermann’s Pillar”).
[31]Benevento, a Lombard duchy in Southern Italy.
[32]The chief tributary of the Rhine in Prussia.
[33]Wittekind was the Saxon leader against Charlemagne and conducted the war until 785, when he submitted.
[34]Field of May.
[35]A town in the province of Hanover, near Bremen.
[36]A small town in Ardennes, France.
[37]The Avars were a savage robber people inhabiting what is now Hungary.